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Creators Syndicate is an international syndication company that represents cartoonists and columnists of the highest caliber.enTue, 31 Mar 2015 15:02:51 -070017f8a3cad3b70d9ffa787a65adadf343Coattail Politics for 03/25/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/coattail-politics.html
Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0700
<p>Hillary Clinton's expected presidential run is being hailed as a chance to shatter the glass ceiling. That's nonsense. Hillary rose to power solely on her husband's sleazy coattails. She's not self-made. And it shows. The recent email scandal is the latest in a lifelong pattern of entitlement and hubris &#8212; traits successful women know can torpedo a career.</p>
<p>Strangely, feminists ignor ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Mar 25, 2015<br/><br/> 1f66c2ded9bf8e1495a324825c3f67eeU.S. Besieged by Superbug as CDC Fails in Its Core Mission for 03/18/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/us-besieged-by-superbug-as-cdc-fails-in-its-core-mission.html
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0700
<p>Just when you thought it couldn't get worse at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after their deadly fumbling on Ebola and measles, new data show the agency vastly underestimated the threat of a superbug raging through our hospitals and nursing homes. Data from a leading medical journal show that 29,000 people in the U.S. are killed each year by Clostridium difficile, more than doub ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Mar 18, 2015<br/><br/> 2fe4c587bdf8d66f09e81fff60ff8091Senate Was Warned About Obama's End Run on Iran for 03/11/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/senate-was-warned-about-obamas-end-run-on-iran.html
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0700
<p>Congress is struggling to thwart President Obama's attempt to strike a nuclear deal with Iran on his own, in violation of the Constitution. Lawmakers are taking unprecedented measures &#8212; the invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Corker-Menendez bill and even a letter to Tehran to stop it. None of this would be necessary if the U.S. Senate had done its job instead of ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Mar 11, 2015<br/><br/> eeace5cc6be11da532801c532c94c5ebNation Big Winner if Court Strikes Down Obamacare Subsidies for 02/27/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/nation-big-winner-if-court-strikes-down-obamacare-subsidies.html
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800
<p>On March 4, the fate of Obamacare is in front of the Supreme Court again. At stake are the subsidies intended to make Obamacare plans "affordable." The letter of the law allows consumers to get subsidies only in the 14 states that set up their own exchanges, not in those that didn't. But the Obama administration is ignoring that and doling them out in all 50.</p>
<p>The administration claims th ...<br> <br/>Updated: Fri Feb 27, 2015<br/><br/> d2c84690614c2617160e42dfe9607206Feds Fiddle While Superbugs Spread for 02/25/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/feds-fiddle-while-superbugs-spread.html
Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800
<p>Seven patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center contracted a deadly superbug from an utterly routine medical procedure. Two have died. A third, an 18-year-old boy, fights on for his life after 83 days in the hospital, mostly in intensive care. </p>
<p>All this suffering was preventable. If the CDC and the FDA had alerted UCLA and other hospitals about medical equipment they knew was contami ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Feb 25, 2015<br/><br/> 6e012bad98f7f2dcb5e83d52cb70a848VA Reform DOA for 02/18/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/va-reform-doa.html
Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800
<p>President Obama and the Veterans Administration bureaucracy are already sabotaging the VA reform law passed in August. The ink is barely dry on the 8.6 million Choice Cards that supposedly allow vets to see a doctor outside the delay-plagued system. But Obama's budget tries to snatch the $10 billion allocated for choice and allow it to be spent however VA top administrators want. It's a sickeni ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Feb 18, 2015<br/><br/> 31465c44a6e484ce9d67b2d2b3d752e7Obamacare Replacement: More Covered, Fewer Pained for 02/11/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/obamacare-replacement-more-covered-fewer-pained-.html
Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800
<p>For five years, President Obama has ridiculed Republicans for not having "a meaningful alternative" to Obamacare. The tables are turning. </p>
<p>Republicans announced a plan on February 4, just weeks before the Supreme Court will hear a second challenge to the health law. If the president loses in court, he will have to deal with this GOP blueprint, not dismiss it. Gone are the major features ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Feb 11, 2015<br/><br/> 32e9e67835ce37b2a8e5dfe3f93f484bMoving the Goal Posts for 02/04/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/moving-the-goal-posts.html
Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0800
<p>When is a deal not a deal? When it's with Barack Obama. On Monday, President Obama announced his fiscal 2016 budget with a whopping 7 percent increase in federal spending. That breaks a deal he signed with Congress back in 2011. In exchange for permission to hike federal borrowing by a whopping $2.1 trillion &#8212; the biggest ever debt ceiling hike in history &#8212; Obama agreed to automatic ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Feb 04, 2015<br/><br/> e78602342c409fa5151d866872035f34Obamacare Vs. Cancer Cures for 01/28/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/obamacare-vs-cancer-cures-.html
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0800
<p>Even Republicans gushed with enthusiasm when President Barack Obama announced funding for personalized medicine during the State of the Union last week. "I am launching a new precision medicine initiative," Obama said, to usher in a "new era of medicine, one that delivers the right treatment at the right time." </p>
<p>Sounds good, but don't be fooled. The biggest impediment to these cures is O ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Jan 28, 2015<br/><br/> 41a8470fc8e871abb9bd7ad0047c8063Cadillac Tax: Clunker for Labor, Opportunity for GOP for 01/21/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/cadillac-tax-clunker-for-labor-opportunity-for-gop-.html
Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0800
<p>There's one part of Obamacare that even Democrats hate: the Cadillac tax. It doesn't go into effect until 2018, but it's already forcing workers to give up generous tax-free health benefits and roiling union negotiations across the country. </p>
<p>Politics is a game of addition. The growing uproar over this tax may even present an opportunity for Republicans in Congress to woo enough Democrati ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Jan 21, 2015<br/><br/> b0889e8e76c0a87596fbcca181369486CDC No Longer Keeps Us Safe for 01/14/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/cdc-no-longer-keeps-us-safe-.html
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0800
<p>With flu raging through 46 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking center stage, advising the public and physicians. How much can you believe? Until last year, polls showed the CDC was the most trusted federal agency. But then the CDC bungled its response to Ebola. That was a wake-up call, because the CDC has been fumbling its most important jobs for several years. The ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Jan 14, 2015<br/><br/> e2841e7a40403a05bd8d83ae86dd7715"The Nurse Will See You Now" for 01/07/2015http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/the-nurse-will-see-you-now.html
Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0800
<p>Next time you're a patient, ask whether your "health care provider" is a doctor.</p>
<p>On January 1, New York State changed the standard for who can practice medicine, putting patients at risk. New York is the latest state &#8212; now 19 in all &#8212; to capitulate to aggressive lobbying by nursing organizations to allow some nurses to play doctor without going to medical school. Connecticut ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Jan 07, 2015<br/><br/> 8f5d743b10170c65a3619aa5422971aeTaxes Destroy for 12/31/2014http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/taxes-destroy.html
Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0800
<p>The U.S. Census Bureau announced last week that New York slipped to fourth place in population among the 50 states. Though babies still are born every day in my home state and immigrants still flock here, overall population growth lags because New Yorkers are abandoning the state. Don't blame the weather. Blustery Montana and North Dakota are not having this problem.</p>
<p>New Yorkers are esca ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Dec 31, 2014<br/><br/> 8a13a507e81def39fc63723f88b51e58What Hillary Clinton Won't Discuss for 12/24/2014http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/what-hillary-clinton-wont-discuss.html
Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0800
<p>You need to know how much more coercive "health reform" could be if Hillary Clinton were to be elected president.</p>
<p>A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that 61 percent of Democratic voters support Clinton for president in 2016, which is far more support than other possible contenders have. Obamacare's future is uncertain, with the Supreme Court revisiting the law and Republicans now ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Dec 24, 2014<br/><br/> 775ee45c1b3cec237ae2f88a0bb38d72Cromnibus Winners and Losers for 12/16/2014http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/cromnibus-winners-and-losers.html
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0800
<p>If you want to know how your tax dollars will get spent next year, the answers are in Cromnibus &#8212; the 1,695-page bill that Congress hurriedly passed last weekend to fund the federal government through September 2015. </p>
<p>Republicans won big with Cromnibus, along with farmers, political parties, incandescent bulb users, Blue Cross insurers, kids who like salt, cops who hate body camera ...<br> <br/>Updated: Tue Dec 16, 2014<br/><br/> 319b81fa2ddfa9217f04febf9aaf87a2Gruber: Cog in White House Lie Machine for 12/10/2014http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/gruber-cog-in-white-house-lie-machine-.html
Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0800
<p>Today, Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economist caught repeatedly on video calling the American public "stupid" and saying deception was essential to pass Obamacare, was dragged before the House Oversight Committee for a grilling. But he was a stand-in for the real culprit: President Obama. Lying about the health law originated at the top. In 2008, candidate Barack Obama promised that he, unlike his ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Dec 10, 2014<br/><br/> cb707965276dbf7047e3d309fe2bb552Lies About VA Reform Come To Light for 12/03/2014http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/lies-about-va-reform-come-to-light.html
Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0800
<p>Sharon Helman, director of the Phoenix VA Health Care System in which vets needing medical care languished on secret lists, finally got sacked last week. She was the face of the VA scandal. Yet firing her took seven months. </p>
<p>Unions have the Department of Veterans Affairs in a headlock, and nothing in the phony reform law passed by Congress last August changed that. Nearly all managers gu ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Dec 03, 2014<br/><br/> 8388a2169e281ee686e9e68f81da8ae8A Bigger Problem than Obama for 11/26/2014http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/a-bigger-problem-than-obama-.html
Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0800
<p>We have two major parties in the nation now: the Republican Party and the Banana Republic Party, otherwise known as Democrats. The difference between them is over the rule of law. When President Obama appointed judges without Senate approval, made environmental law without Congress and rewrote his health law two dozen times, Republicans protested that Obama was shredding the Constitution. Most ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Nov 26, 2014<br/><br/> 20bdb9fdfb08e70648e738fc55954b17Don't Let Lame Ducks Spend Your Money for 11/19/2014http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/dont-let-lame-ducks-spend-your-money.html
Wed, 19 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0800
<p>On November 4, voters fired the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, replacing it with a GOP majority that campaigned against Obamacare and big spending. But the Democrats who lost are still running the show. These lame ducks lack the moral authority to govern. They shouldn't be allowed to do any more than the bare minimum to keep government operating until January, when the new Congress mee ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Nov 19, 2014<br/><br/> 65de3576a57106ae06a4cd56836e77a9$6.2 Billion for Ebolacare for 11/12/2014http://creators.com/conservative/betsy-mccaughey/62-billion-for-ebolacare.html
Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0800
<p>When the Senate Appropriations Committee meets on Wednesday, November 12, the Obama administration will mount a full-court press to foist its whopping $6.2 billion "emergency" Ebolacare spending plan on taxpayers. That's $6.2 billion with a "b" &#8212; six times what the U.N. said it needs to end the Ebola crisis in West Africa. The White House is labeling it "emergency" funding. </p>
<p>Not so ...<br> <br/>Updated: Wed Nov 12, 2014<br/><br/>